After experimenting a bit, I found that date ranges can be entered either with
a / (eg 1988/1992), with a – (eg 1988-1992) which gets converted or displayed
in the / format, or in a from-to format (eg From 1988 To 1992). In the latter
format, it still doesn’t like the word Present, but you can
I never save anything to My Documents or My Pictures myself. I put it on a
separate hard drive where I can find it. The only thing that gets saved to
those two folders is what a program will put there. I'm against putting my
data on the C drive. It's only good for people who don't have
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 9:54 AM, William Boswell whbosw...@gmail.com wrote:
I never save anything to My Documents or My Pictures myself. I put it on
a separate hard drive where I can find it. The only thing that gets saved
to those two folders is what a program will put there. I'm against
I agree, Gavin. To me, this is equivalent to the problem with SourceWriter
source citations. I have long advocated that Legacy reformat these into
readable detail citations during the process of converting them into Basic
sources for the GEDCOM export. It seems that Millennia does not believe
Hi all,
There hasn’t been a response to my query – does anyone know please?
If not, then I will request a feature on this.
Thanks,
Jemima
From: Ardenholme Genealogy [mailto:geneal...@ardenholme.co.uk]
Sent: 01 December 2013 10:13
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: RE:
Kurt,
Yes, dates can be entered this way, but I recommend that you not do it!
This is not a valid date format and does not export well to other
programs.
When I want a quick date entry of a range, I will prefix that with either
bet or from; the first expands to bet x and y; the second to from x
Bill,
I also like to keep all of my document files on a different drive than the c:
drive. Maybe this has been discussed here before but you can tell Windows
to relocate folders like My Documents, My Pictures, My Videos etc. to a
different location, in my case the e: drive.That leaves
Perhaps, I am too simplistic, but I include the burial, even the name of
the cemetery in the burial position on the profile of that person. Orinda
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 8:27 AM, Ardenholme Genealogy
geneal...@ardenholme.co.uk wrote:
Hi all,
There hasn’t been a response to my query –
On 2013/12/05 16:54, William Boswell wrote:
I never save anything to My Documents or My Pictures myself. I put it on a
separate hard drive where I can find it. The only thing that gets saved to
those two folders is what a program will put there. I'm against putting my
data on the C drive.
Hello
I am fascinated with the Family File Statistics Report with all those data
about my family!
With the RIN checked, it does not appear on the report? Should it be?
And where should I see it, I am guessing things like Longest Living
Individuals, Longest marriage, Longest male/female
I didn't know you could get Windows to relocate My Documents to different
locations. I never really use My Documents unless I purchased music online and
it puts it there. Thanks for the suggestion.
Bill
-Original Message-
From: Dave [mailto:famho...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday,
If I could get it to white type on black that would be fine, but 10.1
doesn't seem to have a provision for changing the Notes font color.
I have re-installed 7.5 and verified that Richtx32.ocx is in
Windows\system32 and registered. I haven't re-installed 8 but got positive
On 2013/12/05 18:46, William Boswell wrote:
I didn't know you could get Windows to relocate My Documents to different
locations. I never really use My Documents unless I purchased music online
and it puts it there. Thanks for the suggestion.
In Windows Explorer, right-click on My Documents
Leo recommended a Location report since you record the cemetery as part
of your burial locations. There is no way to sort that report by date
since there can be a multitude of dates for a single person's use of a
location. Remember this report is for all locations and the standard
is to use town
Bill,
How do you plan to publish your research?
Knowing where you plan on ending up will guide you to how you use some of
the new features of Legacy.
My principal publishing vehicle is to web publish with TNG. As TNG does
not know anything about Legacy SW sources, I have never bothered to adopt
I am trying to follow this correspondence but looking at My Documents I see
that not only all media and data has been put there under the Legacy Family
Tree folder, but also sub-folders as follows:
Legacy Family Tree
NameMaster-media 2013-12-02 18.07.58
Legacy
Program Files
I have been debating for years how to use my data. By choice I don't have a
website anymore, but may export it to HTML or an equivalent web-based format to
put on disc. Most likely it will be in a report or reformatted in book format.
Occasionally I'd like to update Legacy 7.5's data since
John
I happened to be one person who had to resolve database nulls when linked to
FamilySearch by using the gedcom export / import. This was on version 7.5.
I still keep a reminder to the effect
When creating an email source using Sourcewriter and subsequently exporting
the file as a GEDCOM,
Elizabeth,
If you are using Windows 7, “My Document” is similar to a short cut and part of
“Libraries” which point to where the data is actually stored. This allows you
to store information in one place regardless of where on your computer it is
physically located. They are not really two
Yes, Windows 7. I didn't realise they were just shortcuts. That helps -
thanks, Charles.
On 5 December 2013 18:13, Charles Apple apple1...@centurylink.net wrote:
Elizabeth,
If you are using Windows 7, “My Document” is similar to a short cut and
part of “Libraries” which point to where
Ward
When the standards for Gedcom were created way back when, this 'new
feature' wasn't even considered or even imagined.
Don't blame the software for it, blame the standards that haven't been
updated.
Whatever browser you are using to read this email and view the web
certainly isnt following
There have been several LUG discussions about this. When Legacy formats source
citation output from a template-based source, in many cases (i.e., templates)
it intermixes field values from the master source and the detail source to
achieve a nicely worded citation. But upon export, it simply
Orinda,
I am concerned that you think there is an UNDO button?
Can you explain what you think that is?
ay
On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 11:06 PM, Orinda Spence crazypie...@gmail.comwrote:
I had both of the boxes checked. I may have checked them this
afternoon. Everything is working just
Alan,
Thank you for this sharing.
I am not in Support. Although I am a tester for Legacy, I am first and
foremost a user, like yourself.
I do not know the particulars of most of the support issues unless they
are elevated to the Test group for testing - or for testing a
fix.
I have a personal
Thanks, Randy--I hadn't tried this before.
From this point, Colette, you can tag the individuals or create a search list,
and then report to your heart's content. ;)
--Paula in Texas
Researching: Adair Baker Beasley Benson Betz Bigley Blagrave Burton Chapman
Clement Clough Coppernoll Costine
Or, since the cemetery location would also be used for other individuals, you
can use the individual's burial notes to record the transcription, plot #,
etc., right? Or is that what you meant, CE?
--Paula in Texas
Researching: Adair Baker Beasley Benson Betz Bigley Blagrave Burton Chapman
Alan, that is a great point. However, although my dad was cremated, his ashes
have been inurned (yes, I believe that is the term the funeral home used!),
so I do have burial information, including the cemetery. In this case, I
have not considered also adding a cremation event. (I'm not even
I really doubt that v7 really uninstalled. But...it's quite clear that v8 did
not. So, the problem continues. Hopefully it will be addressed in a coming
update.
Don
-Original Message-
From: grayscot2 [mailto:graysc...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2013 10:30 PM
To:
Excellent idea, Mike! Thx. I was also going to mention to Pam that the output
is the most important thing; how your information comes OUT of the application
should be your driving force. To that end, enter a couple of cemeteries in the
locations list, and a couple as burial addresses. Then
Yes, short-sighted though I may be, I have not entered United States of
America on my locations in the US. ;)
--Paula in Texas
Researching: Adair Baker Beasley Benson Betz Bigley Blagrave Burton Chapman
Clement Clough Coppernoll Costine Daulton Dinwiddie Doody Ellis Exline Field
Floran Floyd
In working with shared events to see how they work, and reading help files,
I don't see the following mentioned.
In researching/finding/entering a census it has been common for me to find
new people, eg the name and existence of a new child. What is the
proper/recommended way to handle this?
In
Or can you restore from backup and wait for it to be fixed in v8 and then
reinstall?
--Paula in Texas
Researching: Adair Baker Beasley Benson Betz Bigley Blagrave Burton Chapman
Clement Clough Coppernoll Costine Daulton Dinwiddie Doody Ellis Exline Field
Floran Floyd Gates Goodale Gordon
Jay,
I think it will be a long time before we have a new interchange standard that
deals with these two features. To my thinking, whenever a software vendor
implements a proprietary new feature for data entry (and internal data
structure), they should implement a workaround for the export of
Don,
You might try what worked before for 7 (as quoted just below) and if it
does, then re-install and uninstall 8 by the same method.
Prescott Smith presku...@yahoo.com
=
That did it. I reinstalled, the install.log was
Rather than fighting a losing battle with Microsoft you should simply migrate
to a different OS. Microsoft was criticized for an operating system that was
too loose and easy to exploit. The concept of user control and different levels
of permission is only new to the Microsoft world. It has
Look at the big picture.
How can Legacy create a 'work-around' if whatever other software doesnt
support it when its imported into their software.
The same goes for a 'workaround' for some Rootsweb or Heridis feature, that
Legacy would automatically support their workaround whenever their gedcom
FYI, RootsMagic Shared Events don't transfer via GEDCOM either.
Mary
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Jay 1FamilyTree
1familytree@gmail.comwrote:
Look at the big picture.
How can Legacy create a 'work-around' if whatever other software doesnt
support it when its imported into their
Ward,
I really wish to take exception to your half implemented
comment.
In the long run, the purpose of Gedcom is to communicate information to
another product. Not all products have all of the same features.
Shared events - as far as I know - only exist in Legacy, Roots Magic, and
a variation
Paula,
Kathy and I determined that this was not a Legacy 8 issue but a data
issue with her Legacy 7 file.
john.
At 03:12 PM 12/5/2013, Paula Ryburn wrote:
Or can you restore from backup
and wait for it to be fixed in v8 and then reinstall?
--Paula in Texas
Researching: Adair Baker Beasley
Paula,
I think with the exception of Georgia, the names of the states in the US
are different from any current country in the world, so the confusion
should be minimal when leaving out the country for US locations.
That said, leaving out the country name in the US, is sort of
chauvinistic. but
I want to make a list of all my picture folders:
the pictures within each folder
where/how each picture is used (i.e., the individual, event, event date,
etc.)
if the picture is not used in Legacy I would like that to be noted, if
possible.
I haven't found that option.
In Legacy Help Legacy
Thanks,
I was able to use Control Panel to uninstall L7 and again to uninstall L8. I
know that install.log was present in the L8 installation because I read it to
see what was installed. After uninstalling L8, it and all of the other
installed files were still in the L8 installation folder, the
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Jay and John,
I don’t expect these features/structures to be re-imported intact into the
target system (whether another product or back into Legacy). What I meant by
‘workaround’ is to bend these structures into the standard GEDCOM format.
Shared events become separate events. (I acknowledge
Am working with Legacy8. Accidentally deleted an individual from my main
Legacy file. I want to copy that individual from a fairly old Legacy8 file
to the main file without doing a merge.just want to end up with the deleted
individual back in the index list in the main file so I can link her to
RM can very quickly import a Legacy 8 file, including shared events …
C.G. Ouimet
Kingston ON
From: Ward Walker [mailto:wnkwal...@rogers.com]
Sent: December 05, 2013 05:19 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Re: Exporting Shared Events [WAS: Re: [LegacyUG] Shared vital Events]
I guess I don't know why this is a problem either. If a SW source is to be
exported why don't they just export it as the nicely worded citation you see on
the screen?
Right now on my Worldconnect page I have this as a citation:
1. Abbrev: Australia, NSW, Electoral Rolls, Ancestry.com
Title:
It is on the merge menu under edit.
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Jay 1FamilyTree
1familytree@gmail.comwrote:
Orinda,
I am concerned that you think there is an UNDO button?
Can you explain what you think that is?
ay
On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 11:06 PM, Orinda Spence
Gavin,
If you could include the lines from your gedcom that relate to this person
and the source, then maybe a proper explanation can be given.
But without knowing whats in the gedcom its just a guess as to how/why.
Jay
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 2:41 PM, Gavin Nicholson gavn...@hotmail.com
I still dont understand?
ToolsMerge
has three options
Manual Merge
Find Duplicates
Not Dup List
I dont see an edit
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 3:07 PM, Orinda Spence crazypie...@gmail.com wrote:
It is on the merge menu under edit.
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Jay 1FamilyTree
tools, merge, manual merge, do the merge, close it and then it will under
edit saying undo the merge. If I am remembering what I just did.
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 4:19 PM, Jay 1FamilyTree
1familytree@gmail.comwrote:
I still dont understand?
ToolsMerge
has three options
Manual Merge
And I found boxes asking whether to overwrite or not. Click on merge,
select your profiles click merge, and the backup reminder in that window
offers the two options. There are also boxes for the options of always.
You might know which one I chose.
I just put someone on the merge, did nothing
Hi Jay,
I guess the bits that are applicable are:
0 @S437@ SOUR
1 ABBR Australia, NSW, Electoral Rolls, Ancestry.com
1 TITL Australian Electoral Rolls 1903-1980
1 AUTH NSW, Australia
1 PUBL Digital images. Ancestry.com Operations Inc. ancestry.com.
2 CONC au . http://www.ancestry.com.au : 2010
Ward,
Thanks for your note.
Please see below...
john.
At 05:18 PM 12/5/2013, Ward Walker wrote:
Jay and John,
I donât expect these features/structures to be re-imported intact into
the target system (whether another product or back into Legacy).
I do expect, at some time in the future, that
Oh dear, John. There are times when I wonder where you are coming from. Take
your first two paragraphs, you mention Georgia as being an exception, you may
be right, I don’t know, or even care, but the rest of the world do not know
what states the abbreviations stand for. Then you go on “That
Thanks to everyone for their help. I appreciate all of you!
Dottie
Sent from my iPhone
On Dec 4, 2013, at 9:59 PM, R G Strong-genes rgstrongge...@gmail.com
wrote:
Dottie,
If you have Legacy installed on both your laptop and pc and you have kept the
file directory structure the same on
CUSTOMIZE
I'm testing Legacy v.8. I keep Legacy v.7.5 and I copy my rene.fdb in v.8.
I customize v.8. The conversion seems good except for CUSTOMIZE below.
Options Customize
3. Data Format 3.3, I check UPPERCASE ; 3.4, I check Show SURNAMES in
uppercase letters
8. View 8.9, I check Show the
OK, Undo a Merge,
I thought you meant you could undo some edits from a regular screen.
Just wanted to be sure.
Thanks
Jay
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Orinda Spence crazypie...@gmail.com wrote:
tools, merge, manual merge, do the merge, close it and then it will under
edit saying
Thankyou Ron, I was waiting for you to step in, knowing your explanation would
be far greater than mine.
(I think shore was meant to be short)
Regards
Shirley
NZ
- Original Message -
From: Ron Ferguson
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Sent: Friday, December 06, 2013 1:17 PM
John,
New GEDCOM: From previous LUG discussions it sounds like it will be years
before a new interchange standard replaces the current GEDCOM standard.
Legacy-RM Interchange: RM is not of any relevance to me. Am I alone in this
regard?
Specific SW Problems: Gavin has illustrated a typical
I haven’t had to do this, but I can think of 2 approaches. First create a new
database from your backup.
Then if you have a lot of events and sources attached to the individual, do an
export to another legacy database of just your one individual, then import that
one individual database in
Oh, Aye,
Thanks, Shirley.
Ron Ferguson
http://www.fergys.co.uk/
From: Shirley Richardson
Sent: Friday, December 06, 2013 12:39 AM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Burial Location as a Cemetery Event
Thankyou Ron, I was waiting for you to step in, knowing your
John,
Use split-screen drag and drop. You'll have to make sure the old file
has a different name than the newer file so you don't get the two
mixed up. I'd append old to the file name.
Open the file that you want to copy into go to View Split Screen to
open a second window and select to open
so if what you sent me isnt the piece exactly then you have some other data
somewhere
What i see matches up
Looking in the gedcom snippet remove the 4 Conc (7 characters in all
because you include the space betwen the 4 and conc and the space after conc)
(conc is short for Concatenate)
Yes that is true but the point is that it would be preferable for Legacy to
simply output a single source which looks the footnote/endnote citation we see
in the program.
Gavin...
From: Jay 1FamilyTree [mailto:1familytree@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, 6 December 2013 12:04 PM
To:
Ron, I think I’ll enshrine that reply on the wall. Said with monarchic suave. I
don’t think we’ll ever teach the Americans geography. Sufficient to know that
we know better.
Bryan
NZ
(and thanks, Shirley)
Sent from Windows Mail
From: Ron Ferguson
Sent: Friday, December 6,
But then it wouldn't be compliant with Gedcom standard
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 6:30 PM, Gavin Nicholson gavn...@hotmail.com wrote:
Yes that is true but the point is that it would be preferable for Legacy
to simply output a single source which looks the footnote/endnote citation
we see in
Ward,
Please see below...
john.
At 07:45 PM 12/5/2013, Ward Walker wrote:
John,
New GEDCOM: From previous LUG discussions it sounds like it will be
years before a new interchange standard replaces the current GEDCOM
standard.
Personally, I think it will never happen. There is too much
inventory
Hmmm...I see your point. Still we have the problem with shared events not
getting attached to all witnesses but that is for the other thread!
Cheers,
Gavin...
From: Jay 1FamilyTree [mailto:1familytree@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, 6 December 2013 12:58 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Perhaps they should consider this. Britain for he uninitiated
http://explore.noodle.org/post/21512465875/because-one-must-know-the-difference-between-the
Boyd
On 6/12/2013 3:52 p.m., Bryan Pratt wrote:
Ron, I think I’ll enshrine that reply on the wall. Said with monarchic
suave. I don’t
Ron
Is there a good source for UK current location hierarchy on-line anywhere, or
published?
After a bit of research, I think we are hung up on semantics. In the UK, the
top-level entity is the “United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland”.
That is the formal name and how it is
You can not share with a new person. The new person that is in the share
event will NOT be added to the persons database it will be a local
person for the event.
So you have add all persons before you try to connect them to a shared
event.
Sven-Ove Westberg
On 12/5/2013 12:05 PM, John Roose
I will add one comment on this subject and then move on
In one of the previous messages was stated
Collaborating Online: I would think that exporting a significant chunk of
Legacy data to a web-based tree usually involves the same GEDCOM
interchange, aside from special implementations like
I have a Death event dated Sunday, 17 April 1927. I would like to keep it as
is, with the day included. Even if I check “ exclude this instance of the event
from problem checking” AND left click on ! (Potential Problems Report) window
and click Mark as Not a Problem and Close. The PP still
If you have created your Death Event as an event that will always occur
after the date of death, And you use Deluxe, click on Sentence Definition
and then select Exclude this event from Potential Problems (or words to
that effect)
On 6 December 2013 13:53, Bryan Pratt brya...@slingshot.co.nz
Did you 'rebuild' the list or just reopen the existing list.
You have to rebulid the list in order to see any changes made since when
the current listing was created,
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 7:53 PM, Bryan Pratt brya...@slingshot.co.nz wrote:
I have a Death event dated Sunday, 17 April 1927.
OK, this little blurb explains why the British Crown Dependencies and the
British Overseas Territories are technically not part of the United Kingdom,
but they are part of “The Crown” and there is still some support and oversight
provided by the UK. I think it is still fair to treat them as
Hello,
I finally found a format/structure for a Old German Prussian(and current
Polish name) location that gives me the correct map location, but I have
over 30 instances of the same town in one family line to correct to the same
format; is there a way to merge or convert all of the same places
Accuracy is of the utmost importance in genealogy. Without that, we in the
United State of America could be considered British, and Maine still part of
Massachusetts!
Try this for clarity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:British_Isles_Euler_diagram_15.svg
CE
From:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:British_Isles_Euler_diagram_15.svg
CE
From: kurt-kneel...@sbcglobal.net
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Burial Location as a Cemetery Event
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 21:46:20 -0600
RonIs there a good source for UK current location
Curious. When I do it, the marker disappears immediately. Although another
marker on a child of the saying that the parent’s birth date is bad still
remains.
From: Bryan Pratt [mailto:brya...@slingshot.co.nz]
Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2013 9:54 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
I am having a problem with opening FamilySearch on Legacy8, but the problem
is with just one of my family files. When I first opened this particular
family file, it did work with FamilySearch, now when I click on it, it
initializes, finds my FamilySearch password and then opens with the message
Pam,
Yes, you should be able to use the Combine feature. Click on the location you
don't want to keep, then click on Combine. It will then change to Combine
With, then click on the location you want to keep and merge with the first
location you chose. Then click on Combine/With.
Monique
From the Master Location List, select one (or more – using shift-click or
ctrl-click) locations, click the “combine” button, it changes to “combine
with”, select the target location and click the “combine with” button. You
may get a message to confirm. The location(s) you selected first will
Says the same thing but leaves out the part about “The Crown” and that Jersey,
Guernsey Isle of Man are British Crown Dependencies and there is still some
oversight by the UK government.
From: CE WOOD [mailto:wood...@msn.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2013 10:28 PM
To:
I replied to a post by Rebecca Irene Poole on the FamilySearch community
forum for Family Tree. Her post goes like this:
*A better way to add existing parents*
When I add existing parents to someone in my tree, I have added one
parent and then tried to add the other and get an
Kurt,
With respect it is our country, and our right to determine who we are and where
we are.
We are a country with a long history and a multicultural one at that, which
does mean that we have inconsistencies in the way we name places.
It is not in our nature to look down on the new world,
I could still use a good reference for finding correct names not just at top
levels, but down to the county/shire and town/village levels.
Thanks.
From: Ron Ferguson [mailto:ronfergy@tiscali.co.uk]
Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2013 11:05 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: RE:
Kurt,
I have an excellent site which shows how to work this out. However, it is the
middle of the night here, and I am on my mobile in bed!
Don't ask - I slept all evening. Anyhow I will be happy to send the URL in a
few hours.
Ron Ferguson
http://www.fergys.co.uk/
Kurt Kneeland
Hi Kurt,
Have you visited http://genuki.org.uk/ ? It's a very handy web site for
all things genealogical in the UK and Ireland. The mailing lists at
Rootsweb (http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/) are very good for
country-specfic assistance, too.
This is really getting away from Legacy, so I
Judith,
Did you set the option to integrate this family file with FamilySearch?
john.
At 11:41 PM 12/5/2013, Judith wrote:
I am having a problem with opening FamilySearch on Legacy8, but the
problem is with just one of my family files. When I first opened
this particular family file, it did
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